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Month: March 2022

March 28, 2022 Compassion / perfectionism / psychotherapy / self love / self-compassion / social media / Spirituality

Against Perfectionism Or How to Enjoy Being a Fuck Up

Perfectionism is a disease among my patients. People’s inner dialogues these days are unrelenting. The oddity of this all is

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March 21, 2022 creativity / Novel Writing / writing

The Weirdness of Writing a First Novel: 4 Musings on the Journey to Finish

The past two weeks I’ve been hard at work on the second draft of my first novel, and I’m in

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March 14, 2022 Absurdism / bodhisattva / Buddhism / Death / grief / Spirituality / suffering

Nihilism or Optimism? More Thoughts on Grief

(My apologies in advance for writing about grief again. I wish my mind was elsewhere, but I suppose that’s what

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March 10, 2022 civilization / Freud / Religion / sex / Shadow Self / Spirituality

Our Instincts Are Who We Are: Finding Our Way in the Mess of Civilization

Recently I reread Fernando Pessoa’s  “The Book of Disquiet.” (If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.) In a

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March 1, 2022 Aging / Buddhism / Death / grief / Reflection

Life Goes On and On and On and On… More Reflections on the Death of a Parent

Today I saw my father-in-law for the first time since my father passed away. He was kind and sympathetic. He

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